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The real source of anxiety

13 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("The real source of anxiety") where the speaker asserts anxiety is primarily physiological—rooted in unresolved trauma encoded in the body—rather than purely a cognitive/thinking problem. The speaker highlights interoception (the mind reading bodily states), nonverbal subcortical brain structures that process feelings rather than language, and argues anxiety is a feeling-based disorder implanted early in life.

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Anxiety is an issue of the physiology of the body from old unresolved wounds than it is the psychology of the mind. I think through interoception, I think the mind is constantly reading the body. If you had some sort of trauma that's not resolved that you couldn't talk about, that you couldn't share with someone, it builds up inside of you and then your mind just reflects that. And we worship the mind so much in our society. We believe that the mind is the cause of anxiety and the mind is the expression. Like we talk to ourselves in words, we talk to ourselves in language. But if you look at the structure of the brain, you know, the prefrontal cortex and the subcortical structures, none of those subcortical structures understand language. They're all feeling based. And that's where a lot of these programs get put into us as younger people. So anxiety is much more of a feeling disorder than it is a thinking disorder.